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"Your majesty knows that I will speak my honest convictions even though they might be unacceptable to the ear of my sovereign," replied Kaunitz. "I understand," said the empress, disconsolately. "You are of one mind with the emperor." "Yes," replied Kaunitz, "I am.
I should have been sorrier to believe it, but I did not say so, or anything else just then. The dull and distant beat came back to the ear. And Levy again inquired if I knew what it was. "Do you?" I demanded. "Rather!" he replied, with cheerful certitude. "It's the clock, of course." "What clock?" "The one on the tower, a bit lower down, facing the road." "How do you know?"
"The world seems to be larger than the village," he said. "I will walk on and see what there is in it." He washed himself all over, curled his tail proudly up in the air, cocked the only ear he had left, and set off walking under the forest trees. "I was the head-cat in the village," says he to himself. "If all goes well, I shall be head here too."
He therefore strained his senses to the utmost in trying to discover what objects might be before or around him; but all, for a while, to no purpose. In a short time, however, his ear caught the sound of a deep sigh, the softness of which told him it came from a female, within a few feet of him.
'Order what the bloody 'ell you like, remarked Harlow, 'so long as I 'aven't got to pay for it. 'Mine's a pint of porter, observed the man on the pail. 'The pint is, proceeded Easton, 'when does the lecturer intend to explain to us what is the real cause of poverty. ''Ear, 'ear, cried Harlow. 'That's what I want to know, too.
Is there an unholy spirit that cannot be found there? Z-z-z- a sudden sizzling whisper reached my ear, and I began to cry. "Why don't you sleep?" asked the shepherd boy in his broken Yiddish. "I am afraid!" "What are you afraid of?" "Of of the woods . . . ." "Ha ha ha I have good dogs with the flock!"
To this aperture Dionysius is said to have applied his ear, in order to overhear what the captives spoke. A lofty opening, resembling a great gate, forms the entrance to these rocky passages. Overgrown with ivy, it has rather the appearance of a bower than of a place of terror and anguish.
Never did tones of the human voice fall more gratefully on the ear of mariner cast on some desert island, than did those on that of the highly excited Clara. It was the loud laugh of the soldiery, who, collected along the line of rampart in front, were watching the progress of the ball-players.
So my father, at the age of sixteen and a half, lent a willing ear to the cooing voice of the marriage broker. Indeed, it was high time for him to marry. His parents had kept him so far, but they had two daughters to marry off, and not a groschen laid by for their dowries.
For an instant both remained motionless; then, with his intent face bent forward and both arms extended, he began to sink slowly upon one knee and one side, inclining his body with a gentle, perfectly-graduated movement until his ear almost touched the ground.
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